One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.